wordpress

wordpress means A content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs.

Etymology

From word + press. Coined by Christine Tremoulet, a friend of the co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who recalled the details in her podcast: He pointed out that he really liked the idea of it being somehow related to the printing press, because the printing press, so many years ago, revolutionized the power of the people because books became accessible, they were no longer so expensive and he truly believed in the power of blogging and this blogging software that he was working on… and really, out of nowhere, it suddenly hit me. I was like, WordPress!

name

A content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs.

noun

A WordPress website.e.g.“Wikipedia contributors are often prolific bloggers, wont to talk about their work on Wikipedia in LiveJournals and TypePads and WordPresses.” — 2011, Cory Doctorow, “On Jaron Lanier’s ‘Digital Maoism’”, in John Brockman, editor, Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, →ISBN,

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Words closest in meaning

By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.

wordpresser 71% match — A user of the WordPress content management system. vs wordpress →
blogpost 53% match — An entry posted to a blog. vs wordpress →
webshite 53% match — A bad website. vs wordpress →
wedsite 53% match — A website dedicated to sharing information about a particular wedding. vs wordpress →
blogette 52% match — A small blog vs wordpress →
webteam 52% match — A team of people who develop a website. vs wordpress →
webhost 51% match — An Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients. vs wordpress →
blogsite 51% match — A web site whose primary content is a blog. vs wordpress →